Browsed byTag: nodejs

The title, says it all, but basically if you have a small service (in this case written with nodejs) running on a server with limited capabilities, you might run into problems if you want to do processor/memory heavy computations. For this can be a solution to offload the work to lambda, which can scale automatically, and you only have to pay for computation, so basically if you rarely need the computation, instead of renting a server you can do this and save heaps of money.

Talk is cheap, lets build it.

First of all if your dont already have you need the following:

Amazon AWS account

We will create the lambda function with this, and our extension of the application will run here.

Nodejs

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for developing a diverse variety of tools and applications.